I am curious what these numbers would look like if they controlled for age. Older people are more likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19 and also be more prone to hearing loss. I am curious how many young people with severe COVID-19 symptoms developed hearing loss/tinnitus.
the post you're responding to makes a bunch of claims that are contrary to current scientific models, and contains no citations or anything, so I wouldn't be too worried about it. I hope your girlfriend's daughter recovers soon. Building functional mental models of this thing is hard. If the mortality for people 40-49 with COVID is in the realm of 1:250 - 1:500 as some studies would suggest, this makes it ~50-100x as deadly as the flu for that age bracket, but infection numbers mean most people in that age range may not (yet) know someone who's died of COVID. Adding to the complexity we have a a large number of articles about the disease science aspects of this being written by economists, which would be laughable if it wasn't so dangerous. (It's much harder to find bad economic takes written by disease scientists, I wonder why that is?)
When my girlfriend's daughter (17 years old) had COVID-19 in April, she was getting an ear pain in one ear and had very sensitive ears. She couldn't even really listen to her music on her headphones as she typically would. Fortunately, that all faded away. She is just still waiting for her full taste to return.
What do you expect in a country with a dictator who can manipulate the entire electoral/political system to extend his term?
It's the asymptomatic part I am worried about, if this happens to relatively young people without symptoms what can happen to our already compromised ears when we get ill with symptoms?
It's in her notes but she doesn't even mention it verbally, what she does mention is "seizures" and "hallucinations"
Are you in Russia? If not it's unlikely this vaccine will be available anywhere else because they're not publishing real data sets, it's all super rushed and I'm assuming it's a smoking pile of bullshit under medical experts from other countries get their hands on it.
Any chance it could've been here in November? That flu I had absolutely knocked me flat, and probably helped contribute my tinnitus worsening.
Yeah, I'm in Russia. I'm not going to touch the stuff. Just a little concerned that they try and push it on people, especially kids.
Does the clip say what these numbers are for the common flu?
Many Western European countries opted for the herd immunity strategy, but they soon changed their minds when they saw that it failed in Sweden (too many deaths plus people can still get COVID-19 if they were infected before), whereas in neighbouring countries (Denmark, Finland, etc.) death count was very low due to hard lock down policy. So it is better to contain COVID-19 outbreaks through moderate / hard lockdown measures and sit out until a vaccine is commercialised.
Is there any info on this vaccine other than Putin said it "passed all the checks"?
This study seems like a very small sample size and it doesn't specify whether they took these specific individuals because they had hearing loss recently or if it was a random sample. I have a feeling it was they took these specific individuals because they had hearing loss. The virus has been around for about 6 months so I feel we would have heard more about something like this.
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